‘MAKING THE PRESENT STRANGE’: SOURCES OF THE CURRENT CRISIS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Physical education has progressed a long way from the days of ‘drill’, when nothing more than movement of the human frame, usually in time with a number of other bodies, was required. It has, however, one more big step to take in order to assume its proper place in the mobile mosaic known as education. That it is trying to take this step is shown by the attempts, often somewhat incoherent, to throw off the very name Physical Education. (J. Myrle James, Education and Physical Education, 1967)